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The thinking ear : complete writings on music education / R. Murray Schafer.

Title: The thinking ear : complete writings on music education / R. Murray Schafer.
Author: Schafer, R. Murray
Publication: Indian River, Ontario, Canada : Arcana Editions, c1988.

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xi, 342 p. : ill., music; 22 cm.

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The composer in the classroom. Getting acquainted -- What is music? -- Descriptive music -- Textures of sound -- Music and conversation -- Mask of the evil demon. Ear cleaning. Noise -- Silence -- Tone -- Timbre -- Amplitude -- Melody -- Texture -- Rhythm -- The musical soundscape -- Charles Ives and perspective -- Music for paper and wood -- Four postscripts. The new soundscape. Yes, but is it music? -- The sonic environment -- Concerning silence -- A new definition of noise -- Sound sewage: a collage -- Three thresholds of the audible and one of the bearable -- Beyond the audible -- The music of the spheres -- Schizophonia -- The sound object -- The new soundscape -- Epilogue -- Middle-East sound diary. When words sing. Voiceprint -- Melisma -- Nature concert -- Thunder-word -- The biography of the alphabet -- Onomatopoeia -- Vowels -- The psychographic curve of the word's soul
Pianissimo secrets -- Sound poem -- Words and music -- Choros -- Choric textures -- Haiku -- Sight singing -- Moonlight -- Appendix: texts without comment. The rhinoceros in the classroom. A statement on music education -- Another statement on music education -- A note on notation -- The music box -- Threnody -- Departing in new directions -- Curriculum vitae. Beyond the music room. Bricolage -- Jonah and the Maynooth Community Choir -- Letter to the Portuguese -- Edward's magic orchestra -- Here the sounds go round.

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